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As the bolts of energy and fire ripped through the forest of
llanowar, Jade wondered why she had decided she was ready to participate
in this year's planeswalker melee. After hundreds of other participants
had been killed in various nasty ways, it was down to Jade and a man in
black robes who wasflying after her. With an army of djinn and vampires
following him, he constantly destroyed all manner of defenses that Jade
had summoned.
Jade was a druidic mage. She called upon the power of the
forests to do her bidding. Now she had a particularly powerful creature
at her disposal, but she did not have nearly enough power to keep it
under control. The force of nature began to run rampant. The other mage
watched in horror as it tore apart his vampire and tossed it aside like a
rag doll. The force was a curious creature, approaching thirty feet
tall, with limbs made of plant matter and logs.
The male mage raised his hands, tracing sigils in the air. His
hands began to glow with a dark aura, and dark lines began to spin around
the force of nature. It stopped and looked around, as if confused, and
then started to tremble. Curling up into a fetal position, the huge
creature shook back and forth.
While the man in black (still flying 20 ft in the air) was
concerning himself with the force of nature, Jade focused all of her mana
on one spell that could make or break her. Gale force wind began to form
itself, swirling crushed plant debris. The hurricane would hopefully be
powerful enough to destroy her opponent, while not be fatal to her.
Seeing a tree branch come whipping toward her, she ducked as if in slow
motion. However, she was not fast enough. Jade blacked out.
Brightness, terrible brightness. Jade slowly opened her eyes, and
realized that she was no longer among the elves of Llanowar. Somehow,
she had shifted planes in her sleep. She had heard about it before when
in company amoung the other planeswalkers, but she had not believed
them.
Jade was an experienced planeswalker, but she had never seen a
plan like this one. It seemed to be an endless flat plains. There was
not a single tree or building to break up the horizon, and the fact that
thunderheads were building in the distance was not lost on her.
In fact, the only thing she could see besides grass was a door,
perhaps twenty yards away. Upon closer inspection, the freestanding door
was made of dark mahogany, and had a shiny brass handle. Something was
written upon the door in large black letters, but Jade could not
understand it. She had never seen letters like the ones on the door.
Behind her, Jade heard a loud popping noise that normally
accompanied a creature being summoned. The noise came from air rushing
to fill the vacuum that the creature created. Turning, Jade identifed a
juzam djinn, still shaking off the effects of shifting planes. Next to
the djinn, another creature materialized, this time a shivan dragon.
Fifty yards away from the first two creatures, a mammoth pitlord
appeared. Soon, more and more creatures began to form, some smaller than
the first, some even larger. And all looked toward Jade.
She had no idea what was going on, but in the matter of a few
minutes a few hundred creatures had materialized. The juzam, one of the
first to arrive, began striding toward her, taking huge steps. Jade
decided it was time to get out of there.
As she tried to shift into a different plane, she realized that
this place held no magic. Her hands didn't even sizzle from the effort
of phasing to another plane. Then her attention turned to the door once
again.
Jade sprinted for the door as fast as she could. The creatures,
sensing her escape, howled and began flying, crawling, and running to
catch her. She opened the door, only to reveal the other side of the
plains. It led to nothing. Sighing, Jade stepped through anyway.
With planeswalking, there is usually a flash of color and nausea,
but it ends as soon as it begins. However, this time seemed different
somehow. The transition seemed to take forever, but ended in a moment.
She shook her head and looked at her new surroundings. She was taken
aback as she looked around. Metal wagons without horses ran up and down
the street, and thousands of people walked around. She looked up at
massive stone towers with mirrors on the outside.
She ran up to someone, and asked them where she was. The man,
dressed in jeans and a shirt, flipped his middle finger at her and kept
walking. Jade was not used to being dismissed, so she used her power of
the islands, which was strong here, to conduct a ray of command on the
man. Searching through his mind, she found that she was in a place
called New York City. By scanning his mind, she found that this was like
no place she had ever seen.
Looking up, she saw a black void up open up in the middle of the
street. Cars crashed into each other as onlookers watched the rift in time and space
open up in the middle of 43rd street. More people would watch as they
saw what stepped out.
On the plains of leng, the creatures howled and screamed at the
sudden loss of their prey. A particularly powerful creature, a royal
assassin, glanced back at the door, and saw that it had grown into a
portal that was easily forty feet tall, and expanding. He yelled as he
ran into it. The djinn watched as the small man sprinted with suprising
quickness sprinted into the portal.
The dragons, goblins, efreets, and other monsters began to file
in through the portal.